Is this true re: Lighting Lane ratio's?

[YorkshireT]

Seeing lots of reports like this on US Groups.

I’ll be testing it out for real in a month.

[loldis]

Originally Posted by YorkshireT

Seeing lots of reports like this on US Groups.

I’ll be testing it out for real in a month.

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Sadly not a surprise in a park like AK. There isn't enough available on Genie+ so everyone is going to be booking Safari as their LL and filling up the slots. Especially if that was from this past weekend, which had significantly longer wait times than I've seen in AK for months.

[dan223]

From what has been said it seems that AK and Epcot are pretty much a waste for Genie. MK is probably the best value as there are much more rides.

While I don't disagree universals system is far superior, you are also paying about 10x the price.

[YorkshireT]

Originally Posted by dan223

From what has been said it seems that AK and Epcot are pretty much a waste for Genie. MK is probably the best value as there are much more rides.

While I don't disagree universals system is far superior, you are also paying about 10x the price.

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I’ve never paid anything as it comes with Universal’s deluxe hotels which are at least as nice as Disneys and cost less?

[dan223]

Originally Posted by YorkshireT

I’ve never paid anything as it comes with Universal’s deluxe hotels which are at least as nice as Disneys and cost less?

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Yea I appreciate if you stay onsite, but for those that don't, it is considerably more.

[Moorlandman]

Originally Posted by YorkshireT

I’ve never paid anything as it comes with Universal’s deluxe hotels which are at least as nice as Disneys and cost less?

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It was also 'free' for American visitors who signed up to a credit card offer on the day. Quite a nice deal

[Laner]

To me this doesn't seem too different from the old fastpass days. I remember queuing in the standby queue for RnR for 50 mins which we didn't mind because it was tipping it down. When we got to the front of the queue, it was raining even more heavily and I counted at least 50 people let through from the fast pass lane before opening the standby lane.

[Fraser789]

I just had a look at the standard express price for Universal when we go in December it's $80 a day but you will get on a lot more rides than you do at Disney in a day.

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by KRBarnard

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Disney World Allocates Up to 93% Of Ride Capacity to Lightning Lane

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There's three types of LL capacity and this is only talking about one of those.

• There's the capacity regarding how many guests will have bought an LL - either Genie+ (for tier 2 rides) for ILLS (for "fancy rides"). Currently only 33% of guests have bought Genie+ but, technically, the maximum capacity here can be 100%. However, I suspect this will never get above 75% - I don't expect more than 75% of guests to buy Genie+ and ILLS.
  
• There's the capacity regarding how many guests will get a slot at any one time or, to put it another way, how many LL slots there are per hour compared to the overall ride capacity per hour. This will not be 93% and will probably be no more than 50%.
  
• Then there's the capacity regarding how many guests at the front of the lightning lane are boarded onto a ride compared to the number of guests boarded from the regular line. That's what this article is talking about. And, yes, the CMs will prioritise LL guests over regular line guests. I'd hope they would do that otherwise there's no point in buying Genie+ or ILLS.

Just because the third capacity can be up to 93% (and I'd expect it to be 80%+) does not mean that overall LL guests get 93% of the overall ride's capacity. Nor does it mean that guests in the regular queue will only get 7% of the overall ride's capacity. There will be times when there is no one - or very few - in the LL queue, in which case then the regular queue will get almost 100% of the capacity.

[themeparksandy]

With the paid LL attractions I would just join it 5 mins before the queue line closes and usually as they won’t be that many LL guests in the queue it should move quicker.